Mature Market Experts: more mature market news and stats more often – Doctors rank the top hospitals – Consumers’ Checkbook along with AARP recently conducted a survey asking physicians to rank the top hospitals in each area of specialization.

HEART, GENERAL
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Children’s Hospital Boston
Boston, MA
New York-Presbyterian/
Columbia
New York, NY
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
Stanford University Medical Center
Palo Alto, CA
Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital
Houston, TX

CANCER, GENERAL
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
City of Hope
Duarte, CA
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
Duke University Hospital
Durham, NC
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, NY

MYSTERY DIAGNOSES
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

NEUROSURGERY
Duke University Hospital
Durham, NC
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
University of California San Francisco Medical Center
San Francisco, CA
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

EYES
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami
Miami, FL
Wills Eye Institute
Philadelphia, PA
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
Wilmer Eye Institute, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD

Source: AARP, The Magazine

This interactive map shows the highest ranked hospitals in the nation’s largest 53 population centers.